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Tarangalekha is a harem-maid of Queen Gandharvadatta since her very young age and was commissioned with the task of protecting Malayasundari from physical harm and restraining her fron fickleness or rashness, when the princess was sent away to the hermitage of Kulapati Santatapa. Dhanapala has portrayed in her a character of a peevish matron who seems to have disliked his commission and is always prone to finding fault and scold her ward whenever the latter does anything which bears on her responsibility. We have a taste of her roughness towards Malayasundari when the latter tries to run towards the waters of the ocean. She at once gathers the sinister motive behind it and quickly pursues her. When she finds that Malayasundari has tried to commit suicide by eating some poisonous fruit she loses her temper and fires her with extremely rude words like a 281 common shrew. She does not seem to have a single drop of 279. Tilakamanjari,p.268(7ff.). 281. ibid., pp.335-336. / 280. ibid., p.330(18ff.).

947 sympathy for the princess separated from her kith and kin. On the contrary she blames herself for the bad luck which has brought her to the uninvited task of having to look after the unsteady wretch of her mistresse's cursed daughter, 282 and complains of her inconveniences, - 283 Her womanish self-centered mentality is profusely exhibited, when, as Malayasundari is getting unconscious, instead of trying to give or summon some treatment or other, she wails and entreats the princess to have mercy on her and try to understand her predicament as a caretaker : Even Malayasundari is happy that she was spared her harangue due to uncinsciousness. She repents afterwards for her anger, is slightly afraid, and tries to bring the princess back to consciousness by sprinkling water on her face. She presents a sharp contrast to Bandhusundari in a similar situation.